• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    A dozen years ago or so there was a huge uproar about “common core” mathematics, which was a new standard being used in the USA for teaching.

    It was a politicized trendy topic and even so-called-intellectuals were jumping on the train and calling it a deranged way of learning math.

    I looked into it a bit, and I swear this pic pretty much sums up one of the key methods they were teaching.

    Basically just tricks that a lot of people figure out to simplify problems.

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      1 day ago

      That’s exactly what it is. A way to help conceptualize and play with numbers. Stuff my bored ass was doing in school anyway before common core came around lol